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24 alternatives to ChatGPT canvas

OpenAI's new way to write & code with ChatGPT

ChatGPT Canvas is a collaboration feature from OpenAI that opens in a separate window for writing and coding projects. Instead of working through conversation alone, users and ChatGPT work side by side to create and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ChatGPT canvas launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

    2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    Access OpenAI's ChatGPT anywhere on the web

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    The official iOS app for ChatGPT

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A customized, superassistant for every member of your team

    2024 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Use ChatGPT & GPT-4 on any website without copy-pasting

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    The browser with ChatGPT built in

    Oct 2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    I was inspired by the way ChatGPT writes bullet lists, then invites you to "delve" deeper. This is an interface that reifies that rabbit-holing process into a tiling layout. The model is instructed to output hyperlink-prompts when it mentions something you might want to delve into. Lots of features to add (sessions, sharing, navigation, highlight-to-delve, images, ...). Would love to hear other usecases and ideas!

    2024 · delve.a9.io · its alternatives →

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    Use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Side-By-Side

    2025 · chatbetter.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAI’s latest advancements at your fingertips

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Powered by GPT Image 1.5: Faster, smarter, precise

    Dec 2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    writeGPT▲272

    Become Superhuman with everyday tasks by harnessing ChatGPT

    2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT-like customer interactions in a website widget

    2024 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →

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    Greetings! YakGPT is a simple, frontend-only, ChatGPT UI you can use to either chat normally, or, more excitingly, use your mic + OpenAI's Whisper API to chat hands-free. Some features: * A few fun characters pre-installed * No tracking or analytics, OpenAI is the only thing it calls out to * Optimized for mobile use via hands-free mode and cross-platform compressed audio recording * Your API key and chat history are stored in browser local storage only * Open-source, you can either use the deployed version at Vercel, or run it locally Planned features: * Integrate Eleven Labs & other TTS…

    2023 · yakgpt.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Open AI announced ChatGPT Plugins to access real-world data

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    An API from OpenAI for ChatGPT

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Talking, drawing and editing with visual foundation models

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A new app for Slack that uses ChatGPT

    2023 · salesforce.com · its alternatives →

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    I build ChatGPT-2D with the idea to enable people to branch AI conversations interactively, pose contextual questions based on AI response and visualize your entire dialogue on a 2 dimensional map interface. What do you think?

    2023 · superusapp.com · its alternatives →

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    The power of ChatGPT in spreadsheets

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT as Telegram Bot

    2023 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    By simply generating prompts

    2023 · service.webgoto.net · its alternatives →

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    Not just another ChatGPT user-interface

    2023 · chatpad.ai · its alternatives →

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    Create a GPT chatbot for any GitHub repo in just 30 seconds

    2023 · codebasechat.com · its alternatives →

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    Create, manage, and measure your ChatGPT ad campaigns

    May 2026 · ads.openai.com · its alternatives →

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